In 1951, Helenus Milmo, a barrister and wartime MI5 officer, was tasked with trying to wring the truth from Kim Philby ... my grandfather. A barrister who had worked for MI5 during the Second ...

Recommended MI5 ‘missed chance to expose Soviet spy Kim Philby decade sooner ... wrote in the preface to Philby’s memoirs, My Silent War: “[Philby] betrayed his country.

If Kim Philby was in any doubt ... The man asking the questions was Helenus Milmo, my grandfather. A barrister who had worked for MI5 during the Second World War, he had answered a call from ...

Kim Philby was the quintessential ... deceit of a man who changed the course of Cold War espionage and whose actions led to untold deaths. Philby’s confession to Elliott stands out as the ...

They were called the Cambridge Five. Young Britons educated among the elite who, during the decades before and after World War II, worked as Soviet agents infiltrated into the heart of the system.

Cambridge spy Kim Philby admitted in January 1963 to being a Russian agent. Picture: PA But while Philby admitted working for the Soviets since the 1930s, his confession is littered with lies and ...

The Cambridge spy Kim Philby declared he ... west London. But while Philby admitted that he had been working for the Soviets since the 1930s, his confession is littered with lies and evasions – ...

“My beloved, I have been called away at short notice. I am sorry I cannot be more explicit at the moment, but plans are somewhat vague. Don’t worry about anything. Tell everyone that I am doing a tour ...

I am sorry I cannot be more explicit at the moment but my plans are somewhat vague Kim Philby to his wife after fleeing to Moscow “I am beginning to understand Catholics and all that,” he said.